Fredric Jameson

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in…

— Fredric Jameson

“. . . it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence"…

— Fredric Jameson

“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its…

— Fredric Jameson

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…

— Fredric Jameson

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…

— Fredric Jameson

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

— Fredric Jameson

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

— Fredric Jameson

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology…

— Fredric Jameson

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”

— Fredric Jameson

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military…

— Fredric Jameson

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or…

— Fredric Jameson

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -…

— Fredric Jameson

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

— Fredric Jameson

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…

— Fredric Jameson

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us…

— Fredric Jameson

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military…

— Fredric Jameson

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations…

— Fredric Jameson

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the…

— Fredric Jameson

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,…

— Fredric Jameson

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining…

— Fredric Jameson

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to…

— Fredric Jameson